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Prompt justice
Oped, Postbag, Published on 10/02/2023
» Re: "Ministry to probe attack on tourist"; "Phuket apologises for attack on Chinese tourist", (BP, Feb 7 & 8).
About time
Oped, Postbag, Published on 11/03/2022
» Re: "Cabinet gives nod to polls in city, Pattaya," (BP, March 9).
Were we misled?
Oped, Postbag, Published on 05/11/2021
» Re: "Anti-Covid pill budget sought, migrants to get jabs," (BP, Nov 3).
Home alone … a case of bad timing
Oped, Roger Crutchley, Published on 18/07/2021
» The emotional events at Wembley Stadium last Sunday inevitably stirred personal memories of a similar happening with a different outcome 55 years previously in the summer of 1966.
Are we ready for the first real automatons?
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/01/2021
» They were planning to put on a play written by an artificial intelligence programme in Prague, capital city of the Czech Republic, this month, to mark the invention of robots (or at least the idea of robots) in the same city exactly one hundred years ago. The coronavirus pandemic got in the way of that, and it will now only be available free online late next month. Kind of symbolic, really: the future is quite different than what they expected.
Move quickly, PM
Oped, Postbag, Published on 19/09/2020
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has a valid point: Covid-19 could easily spread at the mass protest planned for tomorrow, especially as the protesters may stay overnight.
Peace process at risk of disintegrating
Oped, Larry Jagan, Published on 19/08/2020
» Myanmar's civilian government has made peace and national reconciliation a central platform of its administration since taking office in early 2016. But after almost five years very little has been achieved and the peace process is yet again precariously poised. The next stage -- the fourth round of the Panglong talks as Aung San Suu Kyi dubbed it after her historic electoral victory five years ago -- is scheduled to start today in the capital Nay Pyi Taw but is in danger of disintegrating into disarray.
Reaching the finish line in Rio's Games
Oped, Roger Crutchley, Published on 21/08/2016
» Because of the 10-hour time difference, it's been quite gruelling following that sporting event down in the land where "coffee beans grow by the billions" -- I still can't get that song out of my head. I can safely claim to have dozed off while watching swimming, boxing, badminton, golf (sorry Ariya) and missing far too many gold medal performances.